Energise Blog: Natural Health & Alkaline Diet

When is a green drink not a green drink? When it is acidifying!

Not all green drinks are made equal.

Some are sweet - some are sour. Some have 3 ingredients - some have 50. Some are alkalising and some are acidifying.

What has prompted this post you may be asking. Well, I have just been chatting with a friend who is transitioning over to an alkaline diet and the first step he has taken is to get himself a ‘green drink’. Now, he is a bit of a gym junkie so he tends to spend a LOT of time and money in gym shops browsing through whey drink after whey drink. So naturally, when it came to buying his greens he popped down to his local GNC and picked up their Maximum Greens.

In becoming more alkaline, his first ‘transition’ was to drink 4 green drinks every day. I approved. Very good start.

Then he showed me his green drink and I read the ingredients. Wheatgras…good…broccoli…good…spirulina…hmmm jury’s out….HANG ON - maltodextrin! Fermented Soy! WHEAT!!!

Hmmm - If alkalising is your goal I think this one is best left alone.

Thankfully I have convinced him to bin it and switch to something more suitable.

I guess the message is this - before you buy, check your supplements because just one or two sneaky additions can turn a good product bad! Let’s not forget - there are LOADS of great ingredients in the GNC product, but it is such as shame they have spoiled it!

We are in the process of updating our green drink matrix (but you can still view the old one!)